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Characteristic-Writings1
 
The Augustan Reprint Society
HENRY GALLY
 A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings
from his translation of 
The Moral Characters of Theophrastus
(1725)
With an Introduction byAlexander H. Chorney
Publication Number 33Los AngelesWilliam Andrews Clark Memorial LibraryUniversity of California1952
Introduction The PrefaceSection IISection IVSection VFootnotesARS Publications
GENERAL EDITORSH. Richard Archer,
 Clark Memorial Library
Richard C. Boys,
 University of Michigan
Characteristic-Writings2
 
Robert S. Kinsman,
 University of California, Los Angeles
John Loftis,
 University of California, Los Angeles
ASSISTANT EDITORW. Earl Britton,
 University of Michigan
ADVISORY EDITORSEmmett L. Avery,
 State College of Washington
Benjamin Boyce,
 Duke University
Louis Bredvold,
 University of Michigan
James L. Clifford,
 Columbia University
Arthur Friedman,
 University of Chicago
Edward Niles Hooker,
 University of California, Los Angeles
Louis A. Landa,
 Princeton University
Samuel H. Monk,
 University of Minnesota
Ernest Mossner,
 University of Texas
James Sutherland,
 University College, London
H. T. Swedenberg, Jr.,
 University of California, Los Angeles
CORRESPONDING SECRETARYEdna C. Davis,
 Clark Memorial Library
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INTRODUCTIONHenry Gally's
 A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings
, herereprinted, is the introductory essay to his translation of
 The MoralCharacters of Theophrastus
 (1725). Of Gally's life (1696-1769) little isknown. Apparently his was a moderately successful ecclesiastical career:he was appointed in 1735 chaplain-in-ordinary to George II. His otherpublished works consist of sermons, religious tracts, and anundistinguished treatise on the pronunciation of Greek.His essay on the character, however, deserves attention because it is thefirst detailed and serious discussion by an Englishman of a literary kindimmensely popular in its day. English writers before Gally had, ofcourse, commented on the character. Overbury, for example, in "What ACharacter Is" (
Sir Thomas Overbury His Wife...
 1616) had defined thecharacter as "wit's descant on any plain-song," and Brathwaite in hisDedication to
 Whimzies
(1631) had written that character-writers must shun
Characteristic-Writings3

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